EESA06H3 Lecture 10: Lecture 10
Document Summary
Anthropocene it is term that geologists increasingly use for basically the last 200 years in the original greek, it means the age of man. The rocks that are older than about 600 million years old are usually pristine, there are no problems interpreting them. Urban sprawl: the population is growing and the landscape is completely changing. Thus, the landscape is being hardened; the roads and buildings. So, we see a lot more runoff during storms: the effects of weather are more pronounced in urban areas. It is not necessarily because we are getting more extreme weather. It is because we are changing the landscapes, so the effects of these rainfalls are more severe than they were in the past. Managing/protecting water resources is huge because water is the new oil. Watersheds and ecosystems: ecosystems are all being impacted by human activity, largely too because we have been disposing of waste material.
